Casey Schmitt
@csschmitt.bsky.social
Historian @ Cornell. Author of THE PREDATORY SEA: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CAPTIVITY IN THE 17TH-C CARIBBEAN (Penn Press, 2025) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828146/the-predatory-sea/
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Casey Schmitt
@csschmitt.bsky.social
· Jul 15
The Predatory Sea – Penn Press
A new interpretation of captivity, human trafficking, and colonization in the seventeenth-century CaribbeanA century before the height of the Atlantic slave ...
www.pennpress.org
There's a discount code for pre-orders!
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If you've always wanted to read about sixteenth- and seventeenth-century smuggling, piracy, and human trafficking in the Caribbean AND you love a good deal, use:
PENN-CSCHMITT30 for 30% off. 🗃️
www.pennpress.org/978151282814...
This is a really amazing piece worth reading from a grad school friend and director of publications at the AHA, @lmansley.bsky.social!
When director of publications @lmansley.bsky.social left her graduate program, she gave up her dream of publishing her dissertation as a book. In #AHAPerspectives, she shares how she found ways to continue her historical work outside academia and fulfill her publishing goals. 🗃️
A Dream Realized – AHA
Leaving academia doesn’t mean leaving behind disciplinary dreams.
www.historians.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is a really amazing piece worth reading from a grad school friend and director of publications at the AHA, @lmansley.bsky.social!
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When director of publications @lmansley.bsky.social left her graduate program, she gave up her dream of publishing her dissertation as a book. In #AHAPerspectives, she shares how she found ways to continue her historical work outside academia and fulfill her publishing goals. 🗃️
A Dream Realized – AHA
Leaving academia doesn’t mean leaving behind disciplinary dreams.
www.historians.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
When director of publications @lmansley.bsky.social left her graduate program, she gave up her dream of publishing her dissertation as a book. In #AHAPerspectives, she shares how she found ways to continue her historical work outside academia and fulfill her publishing goals. 🗃️
Grading essays in the age of AI is truly gutting. Before you ask, yes, I did all the recommended things to prevent AI use and yet...
What does it mean when we can no longer teach critical thought through writing?
What does it mean when we can no longer teach critical thought through writing?
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Grading essays in the age of AI is truly gutting. Before you ask, yes, I did all the recommended things to prevent AI use and yet...
What does it mean when we can no longer teach critical thought through writing?
What does it mean when we can no longer teach critical thought through writing?
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Spread the word to your colleagues! 2 weeks left to send in your applications.
🚨Tenure track job. Final alert🚨
The @cuny.edu @baruch.cuny.edu history department is accepting applications for the position of assistant professor of the history of South Asia. Deadline is NOVEMBER 15.
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
The @cuny.edu @baruch.cuny.edu history department is accepting applications for the position of assistant professor of the history of South Asia. Deadline is NOVEMBER 15.
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
Jobs | City University of New York
cuny.jobs
November 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Spread the word to your colleagues! 2 weeks left to send in your applications.
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"The coursework and ideas at the heart of a humanities-based education provides leaders with the raw materials we use under pressure: judgment, ethics, story, listening, resilience and the craft of clear communication." bit.ly/4nsS7ko
Donald Thompson: The humanities are a CEO’s edge
The humanities don’t slow business down. Critical thinking and broad contextual habits actually make the work world smarter, fairer and faster.
bit.ly
October 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"The coursework and ideas at the heart of a humanities-based education provides leaders with the raw materials we use under pressure: judgment, ethics, story, listening, resilience and the craft of clear communication." bit.ly/4nsS7ko
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The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
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Applications for FEEGI's April 2026 at Rutgers University are due in two days, on 10/30! Don't sleep on the deadline. See you in the spring! @csschmitt.bsky.social #earlymodern #EarlyAmerica #historians
Folks, applications for FEEGI's April 2026 conference at Rutgers are due 10/30! And for people interested in attending the PEAES workshop immediately beforehand (we're teaming up this time around), apps are due TODAY, 10/17! librarycompany.org/academic-pro... #earlymodern #earlyAmerica #historians
October 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Applications for FEEGI's April 2026 at Rutgers University are due in two days, on 10/30! Don't sleep on the deadline. See you in the spring! @csschmitt.bsky.social #earlymodern #EarlyAmerica #historians
I know it's a silly algorithm run by a terrible, evil corporation, but what an incredible cohort of books for the "customers also bought" alongside The Predatory Sea!
Gobsmacked is putting it lightly...
Gobsmacked is putting it lightly...
October 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I know it's a silly algorithm run by a terrible, evil corporation, but what an incredible cohort of books for the "customers also bought" alongside The Predatory Sea!
Gobsmacked is putting it lightly...
Gobsmacked is putting it lightly...
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Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Share widely!
We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026!
The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website!
frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...
We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026!
The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website!
frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...
Annual Meeting – French Colonial Historical Society
frenchcolonial.org
September 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Share widely!
We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026!
The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website!
frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...
We are now accepting paper and panel proposals for our 2026 Annual Conference in Ireland at Maynooth University taking place 25-27 June 2026!
The submission deadline is 14 November 2025, and you can read more information on our website!
frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...
If you're bored tonight around 7pm EST, join Jessica Chopin Roney and I for a conversation about The Predatory Sea! 🗃️
librarycompany.org/events/fires...
librarycompany.org/events/fires...
Fireside Chat- The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean
librarycompany.org
October 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
If you're bored tonight around 7pm EST, join Jessica Chopin Roney and I for a conversation about The Predatory Sea! 🗃️
librarycompany.org/events/fires...
librarycompany.org/events/fires...
Next week! librarycompany.org/upcoming-fir...
Upcoming Fireside Chats – The Library Company of Philadelphia
librarycompany.org
October 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Next week! librarycompany.org/upcoming-fir...
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The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame seeks a tenure-track assistant professor who specializes in Afro Latin America. joblist.mla.org/job/2000392/...
September 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame seeks a tenure-track assistant professor who specializes in Afro Latin America. joblist.mla.org/job/2000392/...
Very excited for this book! Congratulations @mbarcia24.bsky.social !!!
@yalebooks.bsky.social have outdone themselves with the cover of my new book. Out in January for anyone interested.
September 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Very excited for this book! Congratulations @mbarcia24.bsky.social !!!
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Read an excerpt from “The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean” by @csschmitt.bsky.social. @pennpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/free...
Freedoms Lost in Translation
In the 17th-century Caribbean, a person’s legal status depended on who controlled the land where they labored.
www.hnn.us
September 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Read an excerpt from “The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean” by @csschmitt.bsky.social. @pennpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/free...
THIS is going to be a game changer! 🎉🎉🎉 June 2026 can't come fast enough! 🗃️
Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians
September 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
THIS is going to be a game changer! 🎉🎉🎉 June 2026 can't come fast enough! 🗃️
ACH meeting location announced for this summer!!! All you Caribbean historians, I'll see you in Jamaica soon! 🗃️
The ACH Executive Committee is pleased to announce that its 57th Annual Conference will be held at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, from May 24-28, 2026. (There will be an optional field trip on Friday, May 29.)
Call for papers! associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeti...
Call for papers! associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeti...
Annual Meeting – Association of Caribbean Historians
associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org
September 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
ACH meeting location announced for this summer!!! All you Caribbean historians, I'll see you in Jamaica soon! 🗃️
What's more fun than reading several hundred pages of this? 🫣
September 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
What's more fun than reading several hundred pages of this? 🫣
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Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center
Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.
www.kplctv.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
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My department is hiring! We seek to hire an Assistant Professor in Global Black Geographies whose work engages "with the spatial dimensions of life in African and/or Black diasporic communities in the Global South". Job ad with more details: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05026
Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
August 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
My department is hiring! We seek to hire an Assistant Professor in Global Black Geographies whose work engages "with the spatial dimensions of life in African and/or Black diasporic communities in the Global South". Job ad with more details: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05026
A nice cocktail to celebrate the end of a long road! 🗃️
August 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A nice cocktail to celebrate the end of a long road! 🗃️
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Now updated with more links (thanks to everyone who suggested new material!) and with the years that each article was published. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...
Against Generative AI – Cate Denial
catherinedenial.org
August 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Now updated with more links (thanks to everyone who suggested new material!) and with the years that each article was published. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...
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As promised, the NNI Seminar schedule is here! Visit www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/sch... for all of the details. Please remember that we're happy to see you whenever it fits into your schedule to attend.
NNI Scholars' Seminar :: New Netherland Institute
www.newnetherlandinstitute.org
August 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
As promised, the NNI Seminar schedule is here! Visit www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/sch... for all of the details. Please remember that we're happy to see you whenever it fits into your schedule to attend.